House Armed Services draft bill eliminates SDA, Space RCO as separate entities

Draft NDAA would dissolve Space Development Agency, Rapid Capabilities Office

Amid the Defense Department’s wide-reaching reforms of how it buys capabilities, lawmakers are proposing to get rid of two Space Force organizations that currently hold semi-autonomous acquisition authorities. The House Armed Services Committee published the chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday that includes language to eliminate the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office. If …

House Panel Proposes Eliminating SDA, Space RCO

House lawmakers this week included language in their version of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill that would dissolve two Space Force rapid acquisition organizations, absorbing their programs and potentially replicating their authorities in the service’s new portfolio-based acquisition system.  The House Armed Services Committee’s draft National Defense Authorization Act, released May 26, calls for repealing the laws that established the Spac…

House Armed Services draft bill eliminates SDA, Space RCO as separate entities

HASC 2027 NDAA supports realignment of the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office under a portfolio-based acquisition structure The post House Armed Services draft bill eliminates SDA, Space RCO as separate entities appeared first on SpaceNews.

House Armed Services Committee Calls for Single PNT Overseer in FY27 NDAA Markup - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design

The House Armed Services Committee’s chairman’s mark of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, released May 26, includes a provision that would establish a designated Pentagon official to oversee the Defense Department’s positioning, navigation and timing enterprise — including alternative PNT programs alongside the existing GPS architecture. Aviation Week, which first reported the provision, noted the HASC language cited “a co…